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Publisher
Hollywood Pictures
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When a gynecologist commits suicide after being accused of sexually molesting a patient, his wife deceptively becomes the live-in housekeeper for the woman and, as a bizarre form of revenge, proceeds to make the woman's family her own.
3) Max
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside. Includes 13 episodes, audio commentaries, and more.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After a death of a loved one, grownups are often unsure about how to help young children. Death is a difficult concept for adults to process, and most feel helpless in the presence of a grieving child. For children, there is an added dimension. Their capacity to make send of the loss is filtered through the lens of their developmental state. After some discussion of infants and toddlers, our young experts, ages 4-12, explain with patience and wisdom,...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Shortly after moving into their newly finished dream house, Alice's partner, Harry, dies from falling down the stairs. Harry designed the house himself, so it's weird, wonderful, and impractical, and one more disorientation for Alice to endure along with her sense of loss and abandonment. Her beloved partner of twenty years is gone, and now she can't even find the fridge. To add to her problems, Alice discovers that Harry had a habit of hiding stuff...
10) Rabbit hole
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm, and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The Raven: A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help. The Comedy of Terrors: An undertaker starts to kill people in order to get new clients.
Tomb of Ligeia: A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride. The Last Man on Earth: When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
The Return of the Fly: Fifteen...
12) The fisher king
Series
Criterion collection volume 764
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's #1 shock deejay, whose off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy which ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors-Parry. And so the amazing story of the Fisher King unfolds a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail, filled with...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For Australian documentary filmmaker John Darling, the tragic events of 12 October 2002 compelled him to re-establish his links with Bali that spanned some 30 years. John had lived, researched and made films in Bali for 17 years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and The healing of Bali is his observation of the Balinese response to the bombings and the aftermath. His film presents an intimate insight into traditional and modern Balinese methods of grieving...
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
16) Good-bye old man
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the request of a dying Tiwi man and his family on Melville Island, this film was made of the pukumani (bereavement) ceremony to follow his death. The film observes the family through the long period of preparation for the ceremony, following age-old traditions. Dancing and face-painting are rehearsed, to the family's satisfaction, and because "things should be right for this film". For the two days of ceremony, the community moves to Carslake Beach...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Geraldine Kawanka's husband died, she and her children moved out of their house. In earlier times, their bark house would have been burnt, but today a "house-opening" ceremony has evolved, creatively mingling Aboriginal, Torres Strait, and European traditions in order to deal with death in the context of new living patterns in the Aboriginal community of Aurukun, on the Cape York Peninsula, north Queensland. This beautifully observed documentary...
18) Homegoings
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at the Owens Funeral Home in Harlem and the rural South, director Christine Turner's Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community;...
Series
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Footloose: When city-boy Ren McCormick finds himself in a uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned, he revolts with best friend Willard and the minister's daughter to change everyone's mind.
Tremors: The small desert town of Perfection is under attack from giant prehistoric man-eating worms that can sense any sound.
Mystic River: Jimmy, Dave, Sean. Friends who grew up together in working-class Boston, they drifted apart after a terrible...
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